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| speakeasy | a place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during Prohibition. |
| bootlegger | a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the U.S. during Prohibition. |
| fundamentalism | a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true. |
| Clarence Darrow | The most famous trial lawyer of the day-the ACLU hired her to defend John Scopes. |
| Scopes trial | a sensational 1925 court case in which the Biology teacher, John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution. |
| flapper | one of the free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s |
| double standard | a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women |
| Babe Ruth | The New York Slugger-baseball star; had the record of 60 home runs in one season! |
| Gertrude Ederle | 1st woman to swim the English Channel (1926) |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | Flew the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
| George Gershwin | Composed the "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Concerto in F" |
| Sinclair Lewis | 1st U.S. to win the Nobel Prize in literature |
| F. Scott Fitzergerald | Was a novelist-spokesman of the "Jazz Age" (the 1920s) |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | Wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional constraints. |
| Ernest Hemingway | Author- wrote "The sun also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" |
| James Weldon Johnson | A poet, lawyer and the secretary of the NAACP |
| Universal Negro Improvement Association | (UNIA) a black group founded in Jamaica by Marcus Garvey in 1914. |
| Harlem Renaissance | a flowering of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of New York City. |
| Claude McKay | Jamaican immigrant, a poet, helped establish the Harlem Renaissance- urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination. |
| Langston Hughes | the movement's best-known poet. |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Most accomlished African-American writer of the era.-her books protrayed the lives of poor, unschooled Southern Blacks |
| Paul Robeson | a major dramatic actor. |
| Louis Armstrong | trumpet player, amazing in the jazz world |
| Duke Ellington | on of the greatest composers in the 20th century;also a jazz pianist |
| Bessie Smith | a female blues singer |
